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Mental Ray is a PBR renderer developed by Nvidia that has been available from the company since 2007 as a standalone and plug-in version for Maya and 3ds Max. From today, November 20, 2017, users can no longer purchase further subscriptions for Mental Ray.
What Happens Next for Existing Customers?
Support for already licensed customers is still guaranteed until 2018. If you have a plug-in version that is still valid in November 2017, you can also still extend your licence. To do so, you must send a request to arc-licensing@nvidia.com.
With the end of Mental Ray, nVidia has now focused on the company’s other GPU-accelerated ray tracing technologies. These include OptiX, MDL, IndeX and the Iray renderer. You can find an overview here.
Further information on the announcment: Can be found here in the FAQ!
